Deep Sea and Foreign Going - Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry, that Brings You 90 Percent of Everything

In this unique investigation, Rose George has travelled the high seas with their powerful naval fleets, pirate gangs, and illegal floating factories, as well as visiting the ports and their land bound dockworkers, tycoons, missionaries, stevedores, border control guards, and ship spotters.

About the author

Rose George is the author of A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World (long-listed for the Ulysses Reportage Prize), The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste (Portobello, 2008; shortlisted for the BMA Book Prize) and Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything (Portobello, 2013; winner of a Mountbatten Maritime Award). She contributes regularly to the London Review of Books, the Guardian, the Independent and others. http://rosegeorge.com/site/

Summary

An award-winning investigation into the shady world of international shipping, the hidden industry upon which our world turns and our future depends

Product details

• Authors: Rose George, Rose (Y) George, George Rose
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.07.2014
• EAN: 9781846272998
• ISBN: 978-1-84627-299-8
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 230 g
• Series: Portobello Books
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Ships; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Transportation, Transport industries, Shipping industries